AI Data Leader Appen Appoints New CEO, Armughan Ahmad
Data-for-AI leader Appen announces the appointment of Armughan Ahmad, former KPMG executive, as CEO.
Data-for-AI leader Appen announces the appointment of Armughan Ahmad, former KPMG executive, as CEO.
Share price falls after release of trading update; expecting disappointing full-year 2022 revenue and EBITDA results.
Zoo Digital outperforms competitors again. Keywords Studios’ globalization unit strengthens video game localizer’s position. Appen’s stock continues to plunge.
Appen reports H1 2022 revenues to be down 7% and EBITDA down 69% versus the comparable period last year. CEO of data-for-AI provider blames sector slowdown rather than competition.
Language I/O hires a CMO; DigitalTolk, a CFO and a Head of Sales; Appen, a Senior Director of AI Specialists; Blend, a CFO and a VP of HR; and Unbabel, a Chief Product Officer.
Among the platforms and workflows featured in Appen’s 2022 Investor Technology Day: Ontology Studio, which “productizes core components” of Appen’s “linguistic expertise.”
Australia data annotation provider, Appen, gets buyout offer from Telus, buyer of Lionbridge AI business. In surprising about-face, Canadian call center giant walks away.
Record annual revenue of USD 447m unable to offset investor disappointment in ASX-traded company after downgraded EBITDA guidance and plunge in net profit after tax.
While the overall language industry put in an exceptionally strong year, investors in listed LSPs and companies operating LSP units were handed a decidedly mixed bag in 2021.
Despite growth in New Markets, AI data leader Appen reports 2% revenue decline in H1 2021, with net profit after tax down 55%, sending the share price down to 2018 levels.
AI data leader Appen sees share price drop 11% in May amid continuing retreat from all-time highs of 2020. Company splits reporting into separate Services and Product segments.
Appen’s shares plunge, TRSB acquires local rival Anglocom, Google MT evaluation paper released, USD 72m interpreting tender in Sweden, Slator Job Index rises again.
While Covid’s impact on clients’ priorities limited Appen’s revenue growth to 12%, the data-for-AI giant hopes new clients and the Chinese market will boost future performance.
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Australia-listed language data provider Appen downgrades FY EBITDA guidance by ca. 16% after disappointing November, California lockdowns, and absence of pre-Christmas spike.
Appen, a global leader in high-quality training data for machine learning systems, is a Silver-level sponsor of Women in Localization for 2020-2021.
Lionbridge sells data annotation division to Canada's TELUS in major payday for private equity owners H.I.G. Capital. Translation and localization business to remain with Lionbridge.
Data annotation provider Appen posts 25% revenue growth for first half 2020 as Relevance division booms. Weakness in language data business contributes to share price retreat.